THE COUNTRY HOME [chapter 



is nine acres, we ought to be able to find you all 

 over those acres. It should all of it be your resi- 

 dence. The gardens should suggest your idiosyn- 

 crasies, and the hedges and the hiding-places 

 should be your features. 



Dr. Edward Everett used to say, when he took his 

 hat, " I am going in for a walk." When he stepped 

 back indoors, he called it going out of his house — 

 for he reckoned his real house to be his garden, 

 his orchard, and the whole world at large. Really 

 the most foreign place to our living processes is in- 

 doors. President Hall has it that " health is whole- 

 ness, or holiness, in its highest aspect." He holds 

 that every room of ours should have, first of all, the 

 maximum of light and sunshine, and that we should 

 live the larger part of our lives entirely apart from 

 the house. Get out of bed early in the morning, 

 and bathe in the rising sun's rays. One morning 

 hour is worth two at midday and four at night. 

 The air is fuller of ozone, and the system is in a 

 better condition to receive and absorb it. He tells 

 us that the conditions for good health are these: 

 "Pure air, sunshine, good companionship, proper 

 nutrition, regular habits, suitable subjects of 

 thought, and good tools." 



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